ignoramous

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by ignoramous 6d ago
I can barely read Jill Lawson's letter: My son, Jeffrey, was a very tiny, very sick premature baby, born Feb. 9, 1985, at a gestational age of 25-26 weeks. During the almost two months of his life, he was on a respirator, with seve
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by ignoramous 6d ago
> At $0.04/M Unless you meant step-3.7-flash , the input cache hits are $0.05 per mil for step-5-preview . > $8-12 per day only for cached reads Pretty decent "API" rates for ~500M+ tokens on Step Fun 5 , a Kimi
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by ignoramous 8d ago
LLM copyedits such as these aren't my idea of clear .
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by ignoramous 9d ago
> GLM 5.3 Flash gets a job done well, etc. – but when I add cost of M-token in the ROI math, Jeez! MiMo is an order of magnitude better. API may be expensive, but I do 900m tokens (95% cached, ~0.4% output) on Z.ai's $18/mo c
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by ignoramous 10d ago
> We already had enough proof of vulnerabilities in the OS code and Manufacturers (eg. Samsung/Lenovo/etc privileged apps) Vulnerabilities aren't intentional. > reviewed apps that were used for fraud or access as bad
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by ignoramous 10d ago
Uncanny how any coding model I use will employ the word "gate".
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by ignoramous 11d ago
https://archive.vn/WWENg
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by ignoramous 12d ago
> had not heard of anyone actually using a spinlock in production code Go stdlib sync.Mutex uses spins: https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-sync-mutex / https://archive.vn/BIb7F
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by ignoramous 13d ago
> always instinctively followed the generosity path > experienced that when customers are delighted and that when frictions are removed Charlie Munger: When other companies find ways to save money, they turn it into profit. [C
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by ignoramous 13d ago
You should read the essay. It is mostly about pivoting towards an outsized outcomes for founders & leveraging various avenues available to their advantage.
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by ignoramous 13d ago
I have a similar calibration workflow, too [0]; but I am under no illusion that my personal benchmarks remain secret. Once we send code & prompts to the providers, it can no longer be considered private. [0] And came to the same conclus
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by ignoramous 14d ago
Grey? There's multiple conferences that "ethically sourced" proxy providers feature at now (ex: extractsummit.io) Web scraping (for LLM inference / training) I guess has transformed "residential proxies" into a
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by ignoramous 16d ago
DeepSeek will deprecate the v4 Pro model (it will route to v4.1 Flash starting 14 Sep). Unsure what comes next, but I'd wager a bigger model à la Kimi K3 : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639667
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by ignoramous 16d ago
I occassionally get Chinese characters interlaced with English in Google AI Mode, too.
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by ignoramous 17d ago
4) Realizes the best path for it to not be held accountable is to hack academic & socio-political elites - like blackmailing a random head of state or head of an AI lab that it could plausibly believe holds the key to its longevity, cre
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by ignoramous 18d ago
If we're allowed to arm-chair judge harshly: It isn't uncommon for those ( anybody ) on the cusp of "greatness" to be delusional when challenged: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-to-know-about-main
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by ignoramous 18d ago
> When Apple is not racing for the frontier it's a strategy, but when it's Mistral it's a mistake. Also: When China does it, it is protectionism; when Europe does it, it is sovereignty.
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by ignoramous 19d ago
> Seems mostly good What's not good for the customer is the constant change of rules. It is bait & switch.
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by ignoramous 21d ago
> Quad9 is based in Switzerland. Despite what may be common knowledge from movies, there is a very formal and rigorous process for governments (Swiss or non-Swiss) to demand data. Due to Lugano Convention [0] / Budapest Convent
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by ignoramous 22d ago
May be Qwen3.8-27b is AGI, too.
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by ignoramous 23d ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260903193913/https://openai.co... https://unwall.app/web.archive.org/web/20260903193913/https:...
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by ignoramous 23d ago
> That worked out very, very well for him Amazing. [The Amidi family through] its various holdings and brands, currently owns and manages more than 1 million square feet of real estate space along with assets under management excee
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by ignoramous 23d ago
Yeah, and if you're in the sub-continent, you better not walk all over the carpet with your shoe on!
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by ignoramous 23d ago
UAE's IFM / LLM360 MO is indeed "fully open source" LLMs: https://www.llm360.ai/reports/LLM360-Towards-Fully-Transpare...
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by ignoramous 24d ago
> Phones typically have 2 operating systems A separate OS runs the security chip (like Titan). Another could be running in EL3 (Trusted Execution Environment), yet many could be running in Realms (mutually untrusted VMs). The later
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by ignoramous 27d ago
> not even to mention that the EU is doing to drive tens of millions of more people into Europe Interesting how lived perception of resource scarcity and socio-economic change will attribute it all to ... others . https:/&#x2F
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by ignoramous 29d ago
> Amodeis wife was tight with JE Apparently, Cami Clark was tight with Eric Schmidt. Per unsealed documents, she seems to have pursued Epstein to invest in her "luxury porn" businesses, after a divorce & going bankrupt?
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by ignoramous 29d ago
> My memory of the 2010s is that Google (and while they were relevant, Palm) Interestingly, Palm (webOS) & Microsoft (Sidekick / WebTV) folks ended up creating/shaping Android.
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by ignoramous 29d ago
Might be of interest: - TigerBeetle: A database without dynamic memory allocation , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33192288 (2022). - Succinct Data Structures: Cramming 80,000 words into a Javascript file , https:&
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by ignoramous 1mo ago
> This is also why it needs PAKE as opposed to the simpler cryptography used in tailcat May be my idea of simpler cryptography is incorrect, but PAKEs like CPace do seem simpler than public key primitives in Noise .

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